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The Xbox One has its share of twitchy fragfests and grand adventures. It boasts entertainment options and sports programming. But what the system needs is an easy-to-play casual game, something that players can fire up and relax with. Thankfully, that’s a niche that Peggle 2 fills nicely on Microsoft’s new system.

The sequel to the 2007 puzzle title will be familiar to veterans of the series. Players still shoot balls into Plinko-type boards. The balls bounce off pegs making them disappear and eventually falls into a pit or a bucket that sweeps across the bottom. The goal of each stage is eliminate all the orange pegs.

For the uninitiated, Peggle 2 seems random like the Price is Right game. There appears to be plain luck in firing a ball into the pegs and hoping it ricochets off others and into the moving basket, but keep playing and novices will notice the skill and timing involved. Expert players can slide balls down curves or angle them off pegs and into the bucket like a pool shark.